Dieter Duhm

Towards a New Culture

From Refusal to Re-Creation Outline of an Ecological and Humane Alternative
Verlag Meiga, First edition, 2012 ISBN 978-3-927266-37-7, 128 p, Paperback Translated from the German by Claire-Lilith Sucsens and Sten Linnander

About the book: How will life go on after the collapse of the globalised political and economic systems? How will it survive the large-scale disruption of our planets ecological and climatic systems? And what will become of the immense systems of belief, love and thinking as they start to shake within? The answer to these questions has to persist in the face of so many failed attempts in the past. The world stands on the brink of an abyss. The youth from Cairo to London, from Greece to Chile, from Rothschild Avenue, Tel Aviv to Wall Street, New York are looking for new ways out of the crisis. If the mass protest and revolt movements rising up all over the world today intend to gain revolutionary power and take off together, if life is to win over violence and war, we need a direction, an image, an idea of what might be our common goal. This book offers an idea of how a future worth living could be. It was written and published more than thirty years ago in Germany and we believe that its time has now come. The author, Dieter Duhm, has given a voice to life itself here. He has tracked it behind false morals and dogma, and has opened up ways for it through the walls and armour surrounding heart and mind that we all needed in order to survive an epoch hostile to life under patriarchal rule. All this could be over now. The system change that has to take place today is a change from the power to destroy life to the power to care for and protect life. This is the only way for this planet Earth and all its inhabitants, including the human being, to have a chance for a future. We wish for this book that its seeds of humaneness and compassion will bear fruits worldwide. This is more than a book. It is an idea of how a future worth living could be. The author has taken himself at his word and set out together with comrades and friends to put this idea for the future into practice. The new edition published for the first time in English includes an appendix section that shows in brief, what now has resulted after thirty years of pioneering work. May this undertaking succeed, because if life wins, there will be no losers.

About the author: Dr Dieter Duhm, PhD (sociology), historian, author and psychoanalyst, was born 1942 in Berlin, Germany, and is the initiator of the Plan of the Healing Biotopes, a plan for global peace. In 1967 he began his engagement in the Marxist left, and went on to become one of the leading figures in the students movement of that time. In 1972 his well-known book Angst im Kapi-talismus (Fear in Capitalism) was published, which linked the thoughts behind political revolution to the thoughts behind the liberation of the individual. In 1975 he distanced himself from leftist dogmatism and shifted towards a more thorough human alternative. This led to the establishment of the Bauhtte project: a three year social experiment with 40 participants in the Black Forest in Germany. With the theme of founding a community in our times the experiment embraced the questions of the origin, meaning and aim of human existence on planet Earth. From this experiment, outlines of a new possibility of existence arose, with the concepts of free love, spiritual ecology, and resonance technology. In 1995, together with the theologian Sabine Lichtenfels and others, he founded the Tamera Peace Research Centre in Portugal, which today has more than 170 co-workers and a growing international network. Dieter Duhm has dedicated his life to creating an effective forum for a global peace initiative that can match the destructive forces of capitalistic globalisation.

Books by Dieter Duhm in English: Towards a New Culture. From Refusal to Re-Creation. 978-3-927266-37-7, Verlag Meiga, 2012 Eros Unredeemed. The World Power of Sexuality 978-3-927266-13-1, Verlag Meiga, 2010 Future Without War. Theory of Global Healing 978-3-927266-24-7, Verlag Meiga, 2007 The Sacred Matrix. From the Matrix of Violence to the Matrix of Life. 978-3-927266-16-2, Verlag Meiga, 2005

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